This division spans a wide range of research involving emerging solid-state devices, integrated micro/nanosystems, advanced materials, nanotechnology, electromagnetic fields and waves, and their applications.
The division includes the following active topics and themes:
- Electromagnetic (EM) fields – from fundamentals to applications
- Electrical power generation, distribution/transmission, and utilization
- EM waves – wave guiding, propagation, and interactions
- Optical fibers and applications
- Photonics – materials, devices, and photonic integrated circuits
- Optoelectronics (lasers, solar cells, detectors)
- Transistors (SiGe, MIS, III-V) and beyond-CMOS devices
- Micro/nanoelectromechanical systems (MEMS & NEMS) – mechanical, electrical, magnetic, optical, thermal, and biological transducers
- RF/microwave devices and systems
- Sensors and actuators, sensors for Internet of Things (IoT)
- Nanotechnology
- Biotechnology – BioMEMS, biomedical materials, devices, and microsystems, wearable and implantable devices
- Advanced materials – wide-bandgap semiconductors, ferroelectric, piezoelectric materials, metamaterials
- Quantum devices and quantum technologies
FACULTY
Area Chair: Navid Asadi
Biography
Primary Research Area
Electrophysics
Research Interests
Pico and nanoscale engineering, semiconductor materials, 2D materials, quantum engineering, microscopy and spectroscopy, statistical thermodynamics, quantum-mechanical simulations
Honors and Awards
STROBE Postdoctoral Fellow Award 2017
Lamgmuir-NSSA Outstanding Student Poster Presentation Award at the American Conference for Neutron Scattering 2014
Korean-American Scientists and Engineering Association KUSCO_KSEA Scholarship for Graduate Students 2012
Youngnak General Academic Scholarship 2012
California Institute of Technology Clark Graduate Fellowship
American Institute of Chemists Award 2011
George R. Richason, Jr. Award for Excellence in Undergradaute Research 2009
University of Massachusetts Amherst Commonwealth Honors College Merit Scholarship 2008
Education
Ph.D. California Institute of Technology
B.S. University of Massachusetts Amherst